Austin, TexasFor more than thirty years, O’Brien has worked as a freelance photographer for national publications, including Life, National Geographic, Esquire, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, ESPN Magazine, and Texas Monthly. He published his first book The Face of Texas in 2002. His second book, Hard Ground with co-author Tom Waits is being published by University of Texas Press in March 2011. His work is housed in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the International Center for Photography in New York.